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Walter E. Washington Convention Center

Jun 15, 2025 7:00 AM - Jun 19, 2025 3:00 PM

801 Allen Y. Lew Place, NW, Washington, DC 20001-3614, USA

DIA 2025 Global Annual Meeting

Exploring Regulator Career Paths: How Breadth of Experience Informs Decision Making and Medicines Development?

Session Chair(s)

Paula  Walker, MA

Paula Walker, MA

Global Head of Risk Based Quality Management

Roche, United Kingdom

Regulatory decisions are often a widely discussed topic, but have you considered how a breadth of experience in the career journeys of regulators positively influences decision making within regulatory bodies? Join us to hear from our panel about the impact of their varied career paths in the critical work that they do. This is your opportunity to hear directly from regulators from the UK, Canada & Brazil about what they do, how they got there and what they have experienced and learnt along the way!

Learning Objective : Recognize how breadth of experience within regulators supports medicines development for patients and society; Identify how skills developed in one sector (e.g., industry, academia, healthcare) can contribute to the skills needed in another (e.g., regulators).

Speaker(s)

Sophie  Sommerer, MSC

Panelist

Sophie Sommerer, MSC

Health Canada, Canada

Director General

Bianca  Zimon, LLM

ANVISA Career Pathway: Impact to Medicines Development

Bianca Zimon, LLM

ANVISA, Brazil

Health Regulation Specialist

Mandy Kaur Budwal-Jagait, MSC

MHRA Career Pathway: Impact to Medicines Development

Mandy Kaur Budwal-Jagait, MSC

Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), United Kingdom

Head of GCP

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